looking for a book
Rodney J. Decker
rdecker at bbc.edu
Tue May 9 08:43:13 EDT 2000
>Does anybody know of a book that gives Greek words and their corresponding
>English derivatives? I have often thought that such a book surely must exist
>but have not stumbled upon it just yet. It would certainly be handy and
>useful.
In addition to the items listed, you might also note an older work:
Horace Addison Hoffman, *Everyday Greek: Greek Words in English, Including
Scientific Terms* (Univ./Chicago, 1919).
I assume that people using this approach realize the dangers of it: some
words do have a transparent etymology, but others are either not
transparent or the meaning deduced from it are either outright wrong or
anachronistic (e.g., relating DUNAMIS and dynamite).
Rod
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